LinkedIn introduces Tinder like service to unite mentors and mentees
Social network for the working sector, LinkedIn, which boasts more than 500 million users, has now rolled out a new service that identifies potential mentors and people seeking mentorship and then matches them together. It's almost like professional Tinder. This is a free service and will be first made available to LinkedIn's user base in San Francisco and Australia. Here's more about it.
What's it all about?
LinkedIn, for now, will show a handpicked list of potential mentors to users, who have an interest in getting mentored. Mentors will also have the option of choosing users that they would like to guide. There'll be parameters, such as choosing people from their networks, their former schools, and others. The option of being a mentor will be made available to every user eventually.
How does it work?
In case of those seeking mentorship, after indicating that they are interested in getting feedback or advice on a topic, LinkedIn will provide them certain potential parameters to narrow down the search like the ones given to the mentors. Once both, the mentor and the mentee, match, they can strike up a conversation via messages. Either side can terminate conversation at any given point.
Let's just wait and watch
So what's the entire thing for? Apparently, career coaching advice is not easy to come by and Hari Srinivasan, Head of Identity Products, LinkedIn informed TechCrunch, "We found that among the senior ranks of our user base; nine out of 10 people have said they want to give back." Let's see if the giving spirit pans out. It's free. So, no harm in trying.
